Language, like the humans who deploy it, has an organic quality: it grows, decays, ages, withers, and evolves. The Oxford English Dictionary, which is the definitive measure of the English language, ...

BRUSSELS--Twenty-three Japanese words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the March 2024 update, and some entry definitions are bound to strike Japanese readers as downright odd. On its ...

The original Oxford English Dictionary, edited by the great lexicographer James Murray, was never meant to be a mere dictionary. Murray wanted to account for every sense of every word in standard ...

Do you know where the drink "Bloody Mary" got its name? Or when the term "identity theft" was first used? If you do, then editors of the Oxford English Dictionary want to hear from you. The OED, as it ...

The Oxford English Dictionary, currently a 20 volume, 750-pound monstrosity, has been the authoritive word on the words of the English language for 126 years. The OED3, the first new edition since ...

Four times a year, a group of wordsmiths at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the evolving landscape of the English language to see what new words they should incorporate into what's been ...

Hangry is defined as "bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger." — -- Anyone who has ever felt so hungry to the point of getting angry can finally associate that feeling with an official ...

They just don't make dictionaries like they used to—though perhaps that's a good thing in some ways. Take the monumental and splendiferously fecund pulchritude that is the Oxford English Dictionary as ...

A fusty old tome? Fuhgeddaboudit! The Oxford English Dictionary regularly updates to reflect English's evolution. The latest update includes a number of slang words — like YOLO, the acronym for "you ...